TOURIST TRAFFIC.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 January 1929, Page 6

TOURIST TRAFFIC.

NO INFORMATION FOR VISITORS. D.'NFDIN, January 2,‘L Tint the -ouch Island is frequently overlooked In n it conies to information ’ u- - pplied to overseas tourists on then arrival m Auckland mid Wellington. is the allegation made by Air K. L. Maeassey. a well-known city business man to a “Star” reporter today. This complaint has been made before. hut Mr Maeassey stated that (luring h recent visit to the north lie met a number of oversea people in Wellington who • had arrived at Auckland. All the information they are stated to have received on their arrival concerned the North Island, and others who arrived in Wellington were dealt with similarly, travelling through to Aiiekand without worrying about the claims of the South Island. “It is not only among overseas tourists that a lack of knowledge ol the South Island' is shown,” stated Mr .Maeassey, “ and it is no exaggeration when I say that many Auckland people have the idea that the southern portion of New Zealand is nothing less tlmu n frozen rume.” lie added that it was quite a common belief that snow and exceptionn' cold were the usual experience here. More should he done by the business men of the South Island to place the claims off this part of the Dominion before overseas tourists on their arrival in Auckland,, and also to attract northerners here on holiday visits. Mr .Maeassey suggested that Otago and Southland, and perhaps Canterbury, Plight combine to appoint a representative to meet all overseas people in Auckland and place before them all information in regard to tourist resorts and the attractions offered by the south. A meeting might, he called by the Otago Expansion League and the Chamber of Commerce and 111 similar Invercargill bodies invited to eo-oeprate.